Shu Han Confucian General of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 43
"Eight Gate Golden Lock Formation?"

Seeing Shan Fu say the name of the opponent's formation, Guan Yu finally looked at him with admiration, so he knew that he absolutely didn't know. "Sir, are you sure this is the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation?" Guan Yu asked eagerly.This day he attacked the enemy's formation several times, Guan Yu really suffered unspeakably. Every time he entered, he was surrounded by endless layers of enemies from all directions, and he was almost exhausted to death.If Wenpin hadn't fought desperately with him for the last time, I'm afraid both of them would have to confess.

"It's the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation. Today, during the daytime, when the princes were fighting with the enemy, Shan Fu once watched from the high mountain on the left, and he was sure that it was the Eight Gates Golden Lock Formation." Shan Fu smiled.Although Guan Yu has always been contemptuous of scholars, seeing Shan Fu's relaxed smile at this time, he couldn't help but have some confidence in him.

"Sir, since you know the enemy's formation, is there a way to break it?" Guan Yu simply asked directly, this is also the most terrible question!

"This formation is not difficult to break. Tomorrow, the Lord and Marquis can send a force to enter from the southeast corner and go out to the west, and the enemy's formation will be chaotic. In addition, I don't think Cao's army has put all its troops into this eight-door gold. Lock the formation, the lord can send two more troops to take advantage of the formation being broken, cover up and kill from both sides, and the enemy will be defeated in one fell swoop!" Shan Fu said, his tone full of confidence.

"So that's how it is!" Guan Yu didn't understand this formation, and he was a little confused, but after thinking about it carefully, it seemed to make sense, so he ordered everyone to come to the big tent to discuss matters.After everyone arrived, Guan Yu explained Shan Fu's strategy in detail. Everyone felt that a dead horse is a living horse doctor, and they should try it first.

"That's very good, Wenpin. Tomorrow, you will lead 5000 troops and enter from the southeast corner." Guan Yu still entrusted this most important task to Wenpin, who was second only to himself in martial arts.

"The last general takes orders!" Wen Pin clasped his fists in response.In fact, this expedition finally made Wenpin, who had nothing to do in Runan, even idle, have a place to play.And by fighting side by side on the battlefield, Wenpin has gradually integrated into Guan Yu's circle, unlike before, although everyone didn't say it clearly, but Wenpin always felt as if the word Jingzhou was written on his forehead.

"Zhou Cang, Liao Hua, each of you leads 7000 troops. When you see the red flag of the Chinese army waving, immediately cover up and kill from both sides." Guan Yu continued to arrange.

"The last general takes orders!" Liao Hua and Zhou Cang also agreed in unison.At this moment, a scout came back to report, but he didn't dare to speak when he saw Shan Fu, a stranger in the tent.

"This is Mr. Shan. If you have something to say, it's okay to say it!" Guan Yu was so happy that he pretended to be generous. Great battle. My lord won a small victory, Cao Jun retreated [-] li to the north and went down to the village."

"Okay!" Guan Yu was overjoyed when he heard Liu Bei's victory: "When we defeat Cao Hong tomorrow, we can join our elder brother and destroy Cao Cao together." For a while, everyone in the tent also temporarily walked out of the shadow of defeat during the day.

Early the next morning, Guan Yu ordered the whole army to move forward.After traveling for a few miles, the horse came to report, and Cao Hong led the army ahead to block the way. "Follow Mr. Shan's plan!" Guan Yu passed on the order, so Wenpin, Zhou Cang and others acted separately.But Shan Fu was kept by Guan Yu's side half-pleased and half-heartedly, after all, the heart of defense is indispensable.

The three groups of troops rushed out from the central army of Guan Yu's army, and Wenpin led the army to enter Shengmen in the southeast corner of the opponent, and then went to Jingmen in the northeast corner.At this moment, Cao Jun's formation suddenly became chaotic, first in the southeast corner, and then the whole formation became more and more chaotic.

"Stay steady!" Cao Hong, who was commanding and responding to the Chinese army, saw that something was wrong, so he quickly sent an order to stabilize.At this time, Zhou Cang and Liao Hua's troops had also mobilized, outflanking and attacking Cao Hong's army from both sides.

The way of formation is actually to seek effective cooperation between large armies, so as to cause more to fight less in some areas, and then accumulate small victories into big victories.But if an expert sees through your way of cooperation and targets your weak points, you will lose even faster than if you don't follow the formation.Cao Ren is like this, so is Cao Hong.Seeing that Wenpin, Liao Hua and other three-way armies confuse his army formation out of order, Cao Hong knew that the situation was over, so he had to lead the remnants of the army to flee to the country of Lu.

"Mr.'s plan is really great!" Seeing that the eight-door golden lock formation of the enemy army that caused him a headache yesterday collapsed like a shattered, Guan Yu also thanked Shan Fu with a happy face, and at the same time ordered to clean it up as soon as possible On the battlefield, speed up your march.

"I don't know what the next step is for Junhou?" Shan Fu was still relatively calm, just smiled and asked Guan Yu's next plan.

"Naturally, it's better to go to Peiguo to join the elder brother, which is better than a decisive battle with Cao Jun!" Guan Yu said with a natural expression on his face.

"Hehe, Junhou. Shan Fu has a plan, so that Junhou and Liu Shijun don't need to fight hard, and Cao Cao can't hide!" Shan Fu then explained the plan in detail, and Guan Yu nodded repeatedly. I can't stop worshiping.

"Zhou Cang, how many enemy troops were killed and how many prisoners were captured?" Seeing that the battlefield was almost cleaned up, Guan Yu hurriedly asked Zhou Cang.

"Your Majesty, about 4000 enemies were injured, and more than [-] prisoners were captured. The exact number is still being counted." Zhou Cang replied honestly.

"There's no need to count, all the captives have been released." Guan Yu waved his hand, and then softly said to Zhou Cang, who was stunned, "Go and pick out thousands of strong school swordsmen, and peel off the armor from Cao Jun's corpse and put them on. , mingled with the captives and went to the country of Lu to cheat and open the city gate, and I led a large army to catch up."

"Zhou Cang understands!" Zhou Cang was taken aback for a moment and immediately understood Guan Yu's meaning, and went down to choose the staffing arrangement without mentioning it.

More than 4000 prisoners of Cao Jun had already been confiscated with their weapons, and they were almost stripped of their armor. They were all squatting in a circle surrounded by the guarding Yuzhou Army.The fate of prisoners in war is often very tragic. If you are lucky, you will be recruited or dismissed, and if you are unlucky, you will be massacred.

Just when the prisoners of the Cao army were worried about their fate, a captain of the Yuzhou army came and said loudly: "My lord is kind-hearted and doesn't want to hurt more people. Now he is going to fight Cao Cao. You guys just care about it." No more, get the hell out of here!" This man's voice was not low, even though it was in the wilderness, more than half of the four thousand captives could hear it clearly, and there was an uproar for a while.

"Huh?" Cao Jun's prisoners saw that all the Yuzhou troops had really retreated to Peiguo in the east, and no one was left to guard them. Only then did they believe that Guan Yu had really let them go, and they were overjoyed. , Many people knelt on the ground to thank Guan Yu for not killing him. After that, most of them decided to go to Lu State to join General Cao Hong.For the rest of their lives, they didn't realize that there were some strange faces around them.

In the city of Lu, Cao Ren was relatively speechless when he saw Cao Hong coming in the same panic as himself.But the guard Li Dian had nothing to do with him, he could give a word or two of consolation, and then ordered a banquet to appease the two of them.Cao Ren and Cao Hong were also depressed, and they were a bit lost after drinking.

After drinking for three rounds, someone suddenly came to report: "General Li, two generals Cao, a large number of our people suddenly came to the city, saying that they are General Zilian's men, who have just been released by Guan Yu and are about to enter the city. city."

"Huh?" Cao Ren and Cao Hong were both stunned, and Li Dian was even more surprised: "How could the captives be released for nothing?"

"Go and have a look!" Cao Hong suggested, and the three of them stopped drinking immediately, and hurried to the top of the city to see what happened.Not long after, the three of them came to the top of the city. Sure enough, there were a large number of Cao soldiers under the city, and almost all of them were unarmed.

"How did you come back?" Cao Ren asked first, and a soldier in the city replied: "General Cao, Guan Yu said that he was going to Peiguo to fight the prime minister, so he didn't care about us, so he gave us all. Let go!"

"Could it be like this?" Cao Ren felt a little weird, at this moment Li Dian asked: "Zi Lian, can you see if there is anyone you know, is it the army you led? Don't be fooled by Guan Yu."

"He really belongs to me!" Cao Hong saw many familiar faces at a glance, not only him, but many other soldiers on the top of the city also recognized their acquaintances.For a while, the acquaintances in the city and the city kept saying hello, and it was very lively.

"Guan Yu has always been arrogant, so he must have disdained these small soldiers, so he let them go." Li Dian said his thoughts half-speculatively, and Cao Ren and Cao Hong nodded, thinking it made sense.

"Since we are our own people, open the door and let them in!" Cao Ren ordered immediately.So the suspension bridge was set up, the city gate was opened, and after a busy work, thousands of people under the city began to enter the city one after another.

However, when more than half of the people came in, some people in the crowd suddenly became angry.Seemingly unarmed, they suddenly took out a short knife a few feet long from the armor around their waists, and slashed at other Cao soldiers wantonly.Caught off guard, there was a sudden commotion at the gate of the city.

"What's going on?" Cao Hong and the others on the top of the city saw it clearly, and they didn't have time to deal with it. At this time, a black line appeared in the wilderness far outside the city.The faces of Li Dian and the others changed drastically. They knew that a large army was coming after they had experienced the battle.

"Quickly pull the suspension bridge!" Cao Hong said urgently.But at this time the gate of the city was already in chaos. Although Cao Jun on the top of the city also started to help clear up those pretended prisoners, how could the chaos be so easy to deal with.Cao Hong and Cao Ren watched in despair as the chaos below the city continued, the drawbridge couldn't be pulled up, and the enemy army was getting closer.

Finally, the enemy army in the distance came to the city, and the first person with red face, green robe and golden armor was Guan Yu and Guan Yunchang, and Cao Jun was invincible wherever he went. "Let's go, General Cao!" Li Dian looked at Cao Hong and Cao Ren who had been stunned by the sudden change, and hurriedly told them to run away before Guan Yu's army could fully enter the city.

"Let's go!" Cao Ren glanced at the city. More and more Yuzhou soldiers rushed into the city. Although there were nearly [-] defenders in the Lu Kingdom, a large part of them were the defeated soldiers brought by him and Cao Hong. Those who were attacked surrendered like frightened birds.Cao Ren only took one look, and knew that the situation was over.At the moment, he didn't hold on anymore, and together with Cao Hong and Li Dian led a small number of elite soldiers to fight out from the west gate, and went to Cao Cao's army under the city of Peiguo.

"Sir, you really have a clever plan!" Guan Yu rode into the city of Lu Kingdom triumphantly on a red rabbit horse, the wrinkles on his face were rippling with a smile, and beside him was Shan Fu who had planned this plan for him. "Your Majesty has won the prize, I wonder what's going on in the west?" Shan Fu said modestly, and then asked again.

"Mi Zifang of Liang State already had 1 defenders, and I ordered Wenpin to lead [-] troops to join him to help him defend the city. Now Cao Cao has his elder brother in the east, Liang State in the west, Pei State in the south, and us in the north. Unless he can fly, he will never escape!" Guan Yu was also full of ambition.

"That's good, I guess Cao Cao's food and grass will be gone soon!" Shan Fu added with a deep meaning.Guan Yu was taken aback for a moment, and then burst into a more hearty laugh.

(End of this chapter)